Married Apr. 2, 1893 Wells Co., In., Eva Jeanette Lockwood.
Worked in the oil fields for six years, livery business in Montpelier, Manager of the Phoenix Stock Farm. 1898 started raising pure-blooded Chester White hogs. He enlarged his operation, his sales of that breed of hogs for 1917 averaging higher than that of any other breeder in the state. At the head of his magnificent herd Petroleum Grant No. 37115 who won the grand championship six times, his dam being bloom I, the grand champion sow, which for years went un-defeated. Stockholder of the state Bank of Keystone, President of the Indiana Farm Bureau for twelve years..
Married Apr. 2, 1893 Wells Co., In., Eva Jeanette Lockwood.
Worked in the oil fields for six years, livery business in Montpelier, Manager of the Phoenix Stock Farm. 1898 started raising pure-blooded Chester White hogs. He enlarged his operation, his sales of that breed of hogs for 1917 averaging higher than that of any other breeder in the state. At the head of his magnificent herd Petroleum Grant No. 37115 who won the grand championship six times, his dam being bloom I, the grand champion sow, which for years went un-defeated. Stockholder of the state Bank of Keystone, President of the Indiana Farm Bureau for twelve years..
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